Arizona 



A Tribute 




Delos H. Smalley 

Chicago 



Decorations by 

Marion Miller 

from 

Sketches and Photographs 

by the Author 



Copyright, MCMVII, by 
Delos H. Smalley 



Arizona 



A Tribute 




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Delos H. Smalley 

Chicago 



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EATH heaven's arched and 
wide-expanded dome, 
Lie many lands of beauty, 

rare with charm; 
Where seeking pleasure, com- 
fort, health, or home, 

Or airs that cool, or climes that gently 
warm, 

Man journeys far afield: nor spares the gold, 

His meed for toil through weary days untold. 

Some to the pyramids on Egypt's plain, 

And some, to cities old by distant main: 

Some to the winding floods, where castle- 
towers 

Time years of men, as men take note of 
hours: 

Some seek clear lakes, reflecting Alpine 
snow; 

Some, sunny slopes, where vine and olive 
grow; 

But knowing not thy charms, they yet 
have missed 

The fairest land by sun and soft breeze 
kissed. 




The Grand _Cany on 



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[HY Canyon walls, mile -deep, 
the story tell 
Of aeons measureless by finite 

mind: 
No human skill e'er blent soft 
tints so well, 
Nor equal grace, in grandeur fair, outlined. 
The artist here, with none to praise or 

blame, 
Nor power of death to quench his fervor's 

flame, 
Colored and carved, till we entranced, 

exclaim, 
Nature! Our artists' dreams but bear thy 

name ! — 
Then snowy summits, piercing to the blue, 
Leave denser airs, and starry-worlds look 

through 
The ether pure, with nearer kindlier gaze; 
Hymning, to ear attuned, their song of praise. 
Below, the Crater-Cups, and Cinder-Dome, 
Show travail-throes, through which old earth 
has come. 




Ill 

ATURE, ere age of unborn 
men might waste 



Earth's Forest -Kings, a thou- 
sand summers grown: 
Nor record leave of all their 
stately grace, 
Has here embalmed their forms in lasting 

stone — 
The chemistry of growth— its sudden 

stay— 
The subtle change — the marvel— who 

shall say 
What ages rolled, ere elements combined 
Had wrought the miracle, howe'er designed? 
What later cycles ran, while forces slow 
Formed the deep gorge, with hanging roofs, 

below 
Which races long forgotten, now, should 

dwell, 
Adding their untaught skill, to build so well, 
That lacking legend's store, or written page, 
Their homes stand, wonders, for each 
passing age? 




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r AR to the south, Eternal Sum- 
mer-Land — 
Broad plains, watched o'er by 
mountains old and gray: 
ii Dotted with sage, where thorny 
cacti stand: 

Where cattle roam, and miraged -waters play: 

Where mountain streams are lead to thirsty 
soil, 

And fields of green reward the tiller's toil. 

Here, graceful palm and fragrant orange, 
charm: 

There stately pines defy the mountain- 
storm: 

Nor sense delight and fertile fields, alone; 

But filling mountain-gorge, the precious stone, 

And metals rare, wait the bold miner's hand, 

To yield their wealth, like gifts of fairy- 
land — 

With Nature's best, she proudly welcomes 
thee, 

Our Arizona,— Great, and Wild, and Free. 




ULTURE of favored centers, 

older grown, 
A grace and freedom born of 

nature's charm, 
Give welcome to the stranger, 

faring lone, 
That thrills the heart, and keeps the life-tide 

warm. 
Fair women,— men as brave as earth may 

know, 
Clear eyes of truth, and cheeks with youth's 

soft glow, 
Join the strange cadence of the desert-call, 
The singing pines, the sounding waterfall: 
Offer the freedom of their cities fair, 
Fountains of youth, distilled in mountain air, 
And every beauty 'neath the purple dome 
That canopies their loved and chosen home. 
With these, her charms, she proudly 

welcomes thee, 
Our Arizona,— Great, and Wild, and Free. 



THE GRAND CANYON OF THE 
COLORADO 

;HOU Mighty Chasm! on whose 
walls is writ 
The history of the Ages, we 

call Time— 
Thy Year an Aeon, as man 
reckons it— 
We bow before Thee, murmering— Sublime! 

Here Nature ever speaks her first Great- 
Cause: 
Here God converses, face to face, with man— 
We read from Stony Tables, changeless Laws, 
Wherein He shows anew, His great World- 
Plan. 




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